$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
everyone in hollyweird knew about this disgusting perv. The
Secret Service knew about Weinstein before Obama's
daughter went to work for him.
Obama knew when he was cashing Weinstein's check....
THEY ALL PLAY THE GAME THAT WAY.... CATCH
US IF YOU CAN, BUT WE'RE STILLING DOING BUSINESS
THE SAME OL' WAY UNTIL YOU DO!
OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a TRILLION DOLLARS
in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!
Barack Obama created
more debt for the middle class than any president in US
history, and also
had the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported that during Obama’s
terms, 95% of the wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
Obama Releases Weinstein Statement
A few hours after Hillary Clinton (finally) released a statement on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, President Obama has offered his own.
The 44th president was criticized for waiting five days since the bombshell New York Times report came out before condemning Weinstein and his history of paying off settlements with women who accused him of sexual assault. Anchors like CNN's Dana Bash were wondering aloud, where is the former president?
Since the Times report was published, Weinstein has been condemned by several Hollywood actors and has lost his job at The Weinstein Company. Malia Obama interned at the company earlier this year.
Obama's and Clinton's condemnations are obviously welcome, but critics were quick to note that the latter failed to address whether she intends on returning the campaign donations she received from Weinstein. He even held a fundraiser for her during last year's presidential election.
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rest.
October 11, 2017
Weinstein Collateral Damage: The Obamas
Barack Obama, whom his campaign bundler Harvey Weinstein
once introduced to Hollywood elites as "the Paul Newman of
American presidents," came out with his "shocked, shocked"
statement now that Weinstein is exposed and down and every
celebrity and his brother is making Weinstein-was-a-pig
statements for the press.
once introduced to Hollywood elites as "the Paul Newman of
American presidents," came out with his "shocked, shocked"
statement now that Weinstein is exposed and down and every
celebrity and his brother is making Weinstein-was-a-pig
statements for the press.
From The Hill:
“Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein,” the former president and former first ladyMichelle Obama said in the joint statement.“Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status,” they said. “We should celebrate the courage of women who have come forward to tell these painful stories. And we should work to build a culture — including by empowering our girls and teaching our boys decency and respect — so we can make such behavior less prevalent in the future.”
It's as if Obama never gummed up traffic in
Los Angeles during rush hour to raise
campaign funds and schmooze with celebrities
of Weinstein's ilk over the long course of his
presidency.
Los Angeles during rush hour to raise
campaign funds and schmooze with celebrities
of Weinstein's ilk over the long course of his
presidency.
Obama is more than a little rooted in the world of Hollywood starting with the fact that he
shows up in Hollywood and its redoubts quite regularly - so regularly that an Obama visit to
those parts is known as an "Obamajam." He's believed to have been nosing around to buy a
property in tony Rancho Mirage among the Hollywood elites for his post-presidency. He
also shipped his eldest daughter Malia to work as an intern for Weinstein's Weinstein Company.
He's seen his closest campaign aides take positions in Hollywood. Oh, and at least one engaged
in a little sexism of his own. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama called Weinstein "a good friend,"
and a "wonderful human being" which shows how tight the Obamas were with Weinstein
himself.
shows up in Hollywood and its redoubts quite regularly - so regularly that an Obama visit to
those parts is known as an "Obamajam." He's believed to have been nosing around to buy a
property in tony Rancho Mirage among the Hollywood elites for his post-presidency. He
also shipped his eldest daughter Malia to work as an intern for Weinstein's Weinstein Company.
He's seen his closest campaign aides take positions in Hollywood. Oh, and at least one engaged
in a little sexism of his own. Meanwhile, Michelle Obama called Weinstein "a good friend,"
and a "wonderful human being" which shows how tight the Obamas were with Weinstein
himself.
So now we are expected to believe the Obamas were "disgusted"? Where were they when all this was going on, and why are they only speaking out about it now that Weinstein is down and not in a position to hold Democratic fundraisers anymore? And with all their post-presidential millions, why aren't they giving any of it back?
As for the Obamas's "any man who demeans and degrades women" claim that such people should be held accountable, that rings hollow, too. Since when has President Obama ever held anyone accountable? His administration was one big unaccountability circus, which was a big reason why President Trump got elected. From the corrupt VA officials who lined their pockets while veterans died, to the monstrous IRS officials who targeted political dissidents, to the gun runners of Fast and Furious, to the EPA officials who used false phony illegal emails, to the Secretary of State who housed a secret, illegal, private server in some guy's bathtub, to the slimy political operatives who engineered Benghazi and all its mendacious talking points and phony blame-casting, as well as the Iran Deal and the one-way rapprochement with Cuba...Trust us, Obama has never held anyone accountable.
What it looks like is Weinstein is no longer useful. And despite Obama's post-presidency millions, he's not returning Weinstein's campaign dollars.
The rest of the Obamas's blather, about building a culture, rings hollow, too. Up until now, Weinstein was the building of the culture, with his Democratic fundraising, his politically correct movies, his Hollywood values, his recognition from the Democratic elites. When Obama talks about building a culture, his chief agent has always been Weinstein. And incredibly, he allowed his daughter Malia to work in Weinstein's company and its milieu as if he'd never heard about what kind of a guy Weinstein was. The whole claim about culture building reeks of hypocrisy.
It's pretty interesting that the Obama statement on Weinstein came so late in the day. All it meant was that Weinstein was a millstone around the Obamas' neck given their grand plans for their wealthy, star-studded, post-presidency lifestyle plans, and their desire to preserve the Obama legacy, now that everyone else has condemned Weinstein already.
They're not looking too brave in this pusillanimous statement of outrage.
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Ewan McGregor claims he heard 'rumours' for YEARS about Weinstein's sexual harassment and says it's 'about time' he gets his 'just deserts'
- Actor Ewan McGregor slammed Harvey Weinstein on Twitter, calling him a 'bully'
- McGregor was in the 2013 film August: Osage County, produced by Weinsetein
- The producer was fired by the company he co-founded and saw his wife leave him after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment and assault
- He has been accused of raping three women and assaulting or harassing others
Actor Ewan McGregor is the latest Hollywood star to slam Harvey Weinstein over sexual harassment allegations, saying the disgraced movie mogul was getting his 'just deserts'.
'It's about time this came to light and he is getting [his] just deserts,' the Trainspotting actor said on Twitter on Wednesday. 'Heard rumours over the years but this is awful. Bye Bully!'
McGregor starred in the 2013 film August: Osage County, which was produced by Weinstein.
Co-star Meryl Streep criticised Weinstein earlier this week over the assault allegations.
Actor Ewan McGregor slammed Harvey Weinstein on Twitter, saying he had heard 'rumours' over the years about the disgraced Hollywood film producer. Weinstein was fired by the company he co-founded and saw his wife leave him after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment and assault
'The disgraceful news about Harvey Weinstein has appalled those of us whose work he championed, and those whose good and worthy causes he supported,' Streep said.
The disgraced producer was fired by the company he co-founded and saw his wife leave him after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment and assault.
He has been accused of raping three women and assaulting or harassing many others during decades of predatory behavior.
After The New York Times and The New Yorker articles bringing accusations to light were published on Tuesday, more accusations followed.
One from a former actress who recounted Weinstein meeting her wearing a bathrobe with nothing on underneath at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, the other from actress Heather Graham, who says he implied she would have to sleep with him for a role.
Separately, the New York Times reported on Tuesday that actress Gwyneth Paltrow said she was sexually harassed by Weinstein and that Angelina Jolie said she 'had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth and as a result chose never to work with him again.'
Weinstein, pictured with his wife, Georgina chapman, has been accused of raping three women and assaulting or harassing many others during decades of predatory behavior
Paltrow said that Weinstein touched her and suggested having joint massages in the bedroom before she started shooting the 1996 film Emma. She said she told her then boyfriend Brad Pitt about the incident and he confronted the mogul.
Jolie said she had to turn down advances from Weinstein in 1998. She said she warned other women about him.
The scandal-hit 65-year-old multi-millionaire has reportedly taken a private jet to Europe where he will stay in a rehab clinic and receive therapy for sex addiction.
The move to rehab came after his wife, Georgina Chapman, announced she was leaving her husband.
'My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband,' she told People.
'Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time.'
BAFTA today posted a statement on its website which said that Weinstein's membership has been 'suspended, effective immediately'
Ben Affleck finally broke his silence to condemn Harvey Weinstein, saying the sexual harassment claims made him sick. Weinstein produced Good Will Hunting, for which Affleck and Matt Damon (all three pictured) won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar
In a statement, Weinstein said: 'I support her decision, I am in counseling and perhaps, when I am better, we can rebuild.'
He added: 'Over the last week, there has been a lot of pain for my family that I take responsibility for. I sat down with my wife Georgina, who I love more than anything, and we discussed what was best for our family.
'We discussed the possibility of a separation and I encouraged her to do what was in her heart. I understand, I love her and I love our children and hopefully, when I am better, I will be in their lives again.'
Meanwhile, Britain's film academy says it has suspended Weinstein over the multiple accusations of harassment and sexual assault.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts said Wednesday that Weinstein was informed 'that his membership has been suspended, effective immediately.'
The organization says Weinstein had supported its charitable work, but called his alleged behavior 'completely unacceptable and incompatible with BAFTA's values.'
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October
9, 2017
Harvey Weinstein and the Slow-Motion
Theft of American Culture
"I
cannot be more remorseful about the people I hurt and I plan to do right by all
of them,” wrote movie mogul Harvey Weinstein upon being busted for all manner
of sexual predations, before adding this only-in-Hollywood non-sequitur, “I am
going to need a place to channel that anger so I've decided that I'm going to
give the NRA my full attention."
Perhaps even
more troubling, the day before Weinstein’s apologia came this unfortunate tweet
from Nancy “with the laughing eyes” Sinatra, “The murderous members of the NRA
should face a firing squad.”
The Nancy
tweet stung more because my once exhaustive consumption of American culture had
dwindled down to Turner Classic Movies, Major League Baseball, and the Sinatra
Channel on Sirius, and then Nancy had to go and spoil it all by saying
something stupid like, “I hate you.” I always suspected that Weinstein did, but
even though Ms. Sinatra deleted her tweet, the contempt lingers.
I do not need
to watch Weinstein’s Pulp Fiction any more than I already
have, but Nancy is the mainstay host of the Sinatra Channel, a daily staple.
Having just given up on the NFL, I have to ask myself how much more of our
common culture will be denied me and the millions of Americans who would rather
desert that culture than be demeaned by its custodians.
It has not always been like this. As recently as 1980, for
instance, almost no one in the media openly disrespected people like me. As a
young Reagan fan, I had come to that enthusiasm almost entirely through the
mainstream media. There was no conservative talk radio to speak of, no Fox
News, no Internet, and I caught up with National Review only
occasionally at the public library. I watched the evening news and the Sunday
morning shows without feeling aggrieved or abused, and I listened to NPR all
day long.
Fresh out of
graduate school, I worked as Director of Management at the Kansas City Housing
Authority. NPR helped me keep my sanity. I was one of only a handful of
conservatives working at this place, but no one mistreated me because of it.
Being a
witness to the left’s stealthy corruption of the black community, I wrote several
articles on what I saw. My African-American boss advised me to use a pseudonym
but otherwise had no objection. The Kansas City Star, then
still a nonpartisan enterprise, welcomed my insider perspective. Up until about
ten years ago, the Star even reviewed my books.
At the time,
I served on the board of a local professional theater, had a play of mine
produced, and wrote and directed a couple of fundraising mystery spectacles for
the theater. Today, like the editors of the Star, the theater’s
decision makers will not even read what I submit.
Throughout
the 1990s, I produced a series of historical documentaries for the local PBS
station. In that the audiences supported my work, I kept getting asked back.
For years, I appeared periodically on the station’s weekly news program. That
has dwindled away to nothing. The Star reporters will not be
on the show if I am. The station needs the Star more than it
needs me. Nor have I been on the area’s NPR station in a decade. Like its
mothership, the station no longer even feigns an interest in the sixty percent
of its red state market that voted for Donald Trump.
In that my
wife is a university professor, so were many of our friends. Although they knew
my politics, they did not hesitate to welcome us into their world. Although my
politics have not changed, we have not been invited to an academic dinner party
in at least a decade. Nor have we gone to see a speaker or see a play at the
university three blocks from our house in twenty or so years. Chelsea Clinton?
Angela Davis? The Vagina Monologues? No, thanks.
I used to
watch late night talk shows. Who didn’t? Then the bright minds at the networks
thought it would be a good idea to have every one of the main players --
Fallon, Kimmel, Colbert, O’Brien -- compete for the same angry liberal sliver
of the audience. Today, I find myself watching Johnny Carson reruns.
As for
comedy, is there any? The 1970s saw an emergence of fresh provocative talent --
Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Andy Kauffman, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Monty
Python. None of them was conspicuously partisan. Today, many of the best
comedians -- Seinfeld, Chris Rock -- won’t even play college campuses lest they
offend the snowflakes.
“Saturday
Night Live,” which debuted in 1975, sprang more or less from the side of
the National Lampoon, which, if anything, skewed right. The show
had a 1990s revival whose cast was arguably better than the original, and the
show remained largely apolitical, at least until the emergence of Barack
Obama/Sarah Palin. For eight years the Obama humor was tepid and unfunny.
Today, the Trump humor is venomous and unfunny.
In comedy,
only “South Park” maintains a niche on the anarchic right, but it is
sufficiently vulgar the left doesn’t notice. On radio, Howard Stern has, if
anything, upped the vulgarity. Unfortunately, he long ago abandoned his
libertarian, street smart iconoclasm to keep the guests flowing on the
Hollywood pipeline. Occasionally, he even cheers on the PC police.
Meanwhile,
Weinstein’s Hollywood is in full decline. After years of ignoring middle
America, its mavens decided it would be a good marketing strategy to insult
that audience. It used to be newsworthy when the Oscars got political, even
comical when, for instance, Marlon Brando sent Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring
(or whomever) to receive his award.
As late as
2003, Michael Moore was booed for his rant against our “fictitious president,”
and host Steve Martin was cheered when he snapped back, "Right now, the
Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo." Today,
the audience would have cheered Moore and booed Martin.
The Oscars
have lost their magic because so many adults have lost the habit of going to
the movies. There has been almost nothing for them to see. When the worthy film Dunkirk surfaced
this summer, I had friends ask me where the theaters were. They had gone to the
movies since Forrest Gump.
As to
Broadway, it has taken a long, twisted road from Oklahoma to Urinetown.
Always friendly to gays, Broadway is now bullied by them. Whereas the message
once was, ‘please tolerate us,’ now it is, ‘celebrate us or else.’ Half the
shows on Broadway, maybe more, are gay and/or trans themed.
Hamilton seemed to be a bright spot, and then
the cast, with the full support of its producers, thought it would be cool to
diss vice president-elect Mike Pence to his face. That will do wonders for the
touring show. On the Tonys, to show their support for gun control after the
Orlando gay nightclub attack, Hamilton’s Continental Army did a
drill number without their weapons. They were trying to be sensitive. They just
looked silly.
If nothing
else, Harvey Weinstein is forcing our cultural masters to face the dark,
unseemly side of an industry that much of America has seen through for years.
Weinstein’s bust won’t make much of a difference, but it might just make a
little.
Post presidencies are
notorious for bribe cash to flow in in exchange for favors already delivered.
And as the Clintons demonstrated so ably, leftist presidencies are
historically for sale.
Report: NBC News Passed on Ronan Farrow’s Bombshell Report of Weinstein Rape Allegations
NBC News passed on a story by contributor Ronan Farrow that it allegedly possessed in August about three separate rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein that eventually appeared in the New Yorker Tuesday, according to a report.
According to the Huffington Post, Farrow’s bombshell Tuesday report — in which three women, including actress Asia Argento, accused the movie mogul of rape — “was in NBC’s hands as recently as August, according to multiple sources both inside and outside the network.”
The Huffington Post reported:
By then, Farrow, an NBC contributor and investigative reporter, had already obtained damning audio of an encounter Weinstein had with a woman, in which Weinstein admits to having groped her… Instead, Farrow’s story — and the audio, from a 2015 New York Police Department sting — appeared Tuesday on the website of The New Yorker.
According to the outlet, NBC had “concerns” with the way Farrow’s story was sourced.
The New Yorker report contained a two-minute audio clip reportedly taken from a 2015 NYPD sting against Weinstein, in which the producer is heard begging a model to enter his hotel room, and appearing to admit to groping women in the past.
After the allegations against Weinstein were made public, Democratic Party politicians, as well as the Democratic National Committee (DNC), have pledged to give away Weinstein’s contributions to charity.
In a statement, the DNC claimed they would give away just $30,000 to left-wing organizations, despite the fact that Weinstein donated nearly $250,000 to the organization since the 1990s.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton issued a statement Tuesday on the allegations against Weinstein, five days after the New York Times first published the story about decades of sexual harassment allegations against him. Weinstein hosted a $33,000-per-plate fundraiser for Clinton at his Manhattan home last year, though it was not immediately clear if the former candidate would return or donate any of the money, as other Democratic politicians have done.
“I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein,” Clinton said in a statement issued through her spokesman, Nick Merrill. “The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.”
A number of celebrities also spoke out Tuesday about the allegations against Weinstein, including Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck.
In another bombshell report from the New York Times published Tuesday, actresses Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Rosanna Arquette, among others, disclosed their own encounters with Weinstein during the early part of their careers.
New Yorker: Weinstein Raped At Least Three Women, Too
Last week’s question: Why didn’t Harvey Weinstein lose his job twenty years ago? This week’s question: Why isn’t Harvey Weinstein in prison? After the New York Times belatedly broke the news of Weinstein’s predatory behavior, the rest of the dam of silence has begun to collapse. At least three women, two of which went on the record, now accuse Weinstein of rape, while dozens of others have come forward to discuss being victimized by varying degrees of sexual assault.
New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow published the exposé about an hour ago, with Asia Argento the latest and most prominent figure to speak publicly about her experience:
For more than twenty years, Weinstein has also been trailed by rumors of sexual harassment and assault. This has been an open secret to many in Hollywood and beyond, but previous attempts by many publications, including The New Yorker, to investigate and publish the story over the years fell short of the demands of journalistic evidence. Too few women were willing to speak, much less allow a reporter to use their names, and Weinstein and his associates used nondisclosure agreements, monetary payoffs, and legal threats to suppress these myriad stories. Asia Argento, an Italian film actress and director, told me that she did not speak out until now––Weinstein, she told me, forcibly performed oral sex on her—because she feared that Weinstein would “crush” her. “I know he has crushed a lot of people before,” Argento said. “That’s why this story—in my case, it’s twenty years old, some of them are older—has never come out.” …Three women––among them Argento and a former aspiring actress named Lucia Evans—told me that Weinstein raped them, allegations that include Weinstein forcibly performing or receiving oral sex and forcing vaginal sex. Four women said that they experienced unwanted touching that could be classified as an assault. In an audio recording captured during a New York Police Department sting operation in 2015 and made public here for the first time, Weinstein admits to groping a Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, describing it as behavior he is “used to.” Four of the women I interviewed cited encounters in which Weinstein exposed himself or masturbated in front of them.
Why didn’t the Manhattan district attorney prosecute Weinstein at that time? In part, Battilana Gutierrez turned out to have some credibility problems, the New York Daily News reported over the weekend. The fact that Weinstein’s attorney donated $10,000 to Cyrus Vance Jr’s campaign coffers might have something to do with it, too:
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer delivered $10,000 to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. in 2015, in the months after Vance’s office decided not to prosecute Weinstein over sexual assault allegations, according to an International Business Times review of campaign finance documents. That contribution from attorney David Boies — who previously headlined a fundraiser for Vance — was a fraction of the more than $182,000 that Boies, his son and his law partners have delivered to the Democrat during his political career.
Cyrus Vance Jr will have some explaining to do, no? The detectives certainly think so:
At the prospect of her now figuring as the victim in a case against a high-profile figure such as Harvey Weinstein, the DA’s office seemed to hesitate. The DA’s office asked the SVU questions and the SVU answered them and the DA’s office asked more questions that the SVU also answered.“They knocked it around about a week, back and forth,” the NYPD commander says.The DA’s office finally reached an official determination, following what a spokesman rightly described as “a thorough investigation.”“After analyzing the available evidence, including multiple interviews with both parties, a criminal charge is not supported,” the spokeswoman announced.The NYPD commander offers a different analysis based on long experience.“When you say no after a week, it’s not usually over the facts,” he suggests.
Farrow notes that Battilana Gutierrez also got paid off and signed a “highly restrictive nondisclosure agreement with Weinstein,” and declared that no assault ever took place. That was part of a well-established pattern with Weinstein, as the New York Times’ exposé made clear last week. So was retaliation, and Farrow gets two famous names to discuss that aspect of resisting Weinstein:
Virtually all of the people I spoke with told me that they were frightened of retaliation. “If Harvey were to discover my identity, I’m worried that he could ruin my life,” one former employee told me. Many said that they had seen Weinstein’s associates confront and intimidate those who crossed him, and feared that they would be similarly targeted. Four actresses, including Mira Sorvino and Rosanna Arquette, told me they suspected that, after they rejected Weinstein’s advances or complained about them to company representatives, Weinstein had them removed from projects or dissuaded people from hiring them. Multiple sources said that Weinstein frequently bragged about planting items in media outlets about those who spoke against him; these sources feared that they might be similarly targeted. Several pointed to Gutierrez’s case, in 2015: after she went to the police, negative items discussing her sexual history and impugning her credibility began rapidly appearing in New York gossip pages. (In the taped conversation with Gutierrez, Weinstein asks her to join him for “five minutes,” and warns, “Don’t ruin your friendship with me for five minutes.”)
Farrow continues in great detail to explain the power structure that Weinstein exploited to conduct his predatory behavior over several decades, and how other power structures ended up either turning a blind eye or participating in his power plays. Some of Weinstein’s more ambitious employees acted as procurers of victims to satiate Weinstein’s appetites. Personnel services allowed their temps to get exploited without bothering to protect them, with rare exceptions. Media outlets gobbled up his gossip leaks, which Weinstein used to damage people who either blew the whistle or threatened to do so. Weinstein had the money, the power, and the connections, and anyone who wanted to benefit from them ended up doing his bidding or feeling his wrath.
If Hollywood’s A-listers didn’t know about this, it’s because they didn’t want to know about it. Plenty of people knew enough about it all along, and were willing to talk enough to keep others from falling into Weinstein’s clutches. The New York Times knew about it 2004, and even law enforcement knew about it two years ago. Everyone who benefited from Weinstein had a stake in keeping his secrets, and it’s tough to conclude that they did anything else.
October 10, 2017
Obama's
$1.5-billion ego project
There's a time when
excesses build to reach Nero and Caligula levels, and as presidential libraries
go, the Obama Library on the South Side of Chicago seems to have hit that
tipping point.
The Obama Library is on
track to cost $1.5
billion, three times the $500 million it was projected to cost, and quite a
bit of that will be borne by
taxpayers. Yet it won't
contain...any library materials. It won't even be hooked
up to the National Archives system – on account of it being too cheap
to want to pay the six-figure costs of that purpose.
All it will have is online
document access, which can be reached from any computer anywhere.
There will be nothing special about coming to the Obama library to do any
kind of presidential research. What's more, it's a great way to
cherry-pick which documents can be seen among the Obama papers and which
cannot. Is this library really about what libraries are about, which is
to say scholarship of the historical record? Not in Obama's case.
He'd probably rather no one remember the details of his many failures in
office, which those records could show.
What the $1.5 billion
boondoggle will be about is blocking
community roads, putting public park space off limits, fundraising
for Obama causes, community organizing, shoveling pork for South Side
denizens such as basketball courts, and...satisfying President Obama's
gargantuan ego.
Where did anyone get the
idea that taxpayers owe ex-presidents this kind of golden parachute? This
is Ozymandias-style excess. Or if you want to be much less charitable:
Mobuto stuff. Much of the complex itself will be privately funded, of
course, but taxpayers are certainly going to be paying for millions of it, and
there doesn't seem to be a cap on how much.
Even the private-sector
funding is a bit eyebrow-raising. The kind of money this project requires
is the kind of money a presidential campaign to the finish requires. That
takes fundraising, and small-dollar donors aren't going to cut it.
Big-dollar donors might. But that kind of donors – from Goldman
Sachs-style investment banks, Hollywood heavies like Harvey Weinstein,
foundation fat cats like George Soros – are going to be asking something in
return. And what's more, if they have already given the money, it's worth
looking at what they got in return. Post presidencies are notorious for bribe
cash to flow in in exchange for favors already delivered. And as the
Clintons demonstrated so ably, leftist presidencies are historically for sale.
OPEN
BORDERS:
IT'S ALL
ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG
THE
ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE
CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of
mass-immigration floods the
market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million
marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
MEXICO CONQUERED AMERICAN BY BREEDING BABIES FOR
WELFARE…. LA RAZA DOUBLED U.S. POPULATION AND VOTED TO SURRENDER AMERICAN
BORDERS FOR EASY PLUNDERING BY NARCOMEX.
“Through love of having children we're going to take over."
Augustin Cebada, Information Minister of Brown Berets,
militant para-military soldiers of Aztlan shouting at U.S.
citizens at an Independence Day rally in Los Angeles, 7/4/96
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals,
according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
CHICAGO: THE FACE OF A NATION IN SHAMBLES
CHICAGO’S BLACK GANG LAND…. Is what happens when
bankster Rahm Emanuel and his corrupt Obama party turned the city under!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/state-of-illinois-in-economic-meltdown.html
Harvey Weinstein Flees to Europe for Sex Addiction Rehab
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein took a private jet to Europe on Tuesday night, sources told TMZ. Weinstein will purportedly enter a live-in sex addiction rehabilitation facility in an as-of-now unknown European country.
Weinstein has been accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment by dozens of women, including Hollywood megastars Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow.
In a disturbing and desperate letter reportedly sent to other movie executives, Weinstein said that while many of the allegations against him were not true, he believes he should be given a second chance in the industry following a stint in therapy.
Weinstein was fired by his board at The Weinstein Company shortly after. His wife also announced that she was leaving him.
Weinstein's choice of locations for treatment could have an ulterior motive. Bethany Mandel of The Federalist asked if there was an extradition treaty with wherever he fled, implying that this could have a Roman Polanski-esque motivation. There are numerous sex addiction clinics in the United States, including at least one in New York City, where Weinstein lives.
Polanski left the United States in 1978 on the day before he was to be sentenced for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. Polanski, a French citizen, went to France, and has not been back to the United States since. While Weinstein has not yet been charged with anything, it is rather suspicious he hightailed it across the Atlantic. Could this mean that there are still more allegations yet to come?
One wonders how he will laugh when all his golden promises about ObamaCare turn out to be false and a medical disaster. Or when his foreign policy fiascoes in the Middle East are climaxed by a nuclear Iran.
NJ Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate: NRA Money Is Just As Dirty As Harvey Weinstein's Contributions
The fall of top Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has dominated the news. A fixture of the movie industry, Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment spanning decades, paying off accusers, enforcing codes of silence, and barring any employee from criticizing the Weinstein Company in a way that could hurt its future business prospects. The stories about asking Ashley Judd to watch him shower, or give him a massage, or masturbating in from of then-Long Island 12 reporter Lauren Sivan were already bad enough. There are now allegations of rape. And there’s a tape from a NYPD sting operation in which Weinstein is heard confessing to groping a model. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to press charges. This was in 2015. It’s now making it’s way into the political arena, as Weinstein gave oodles of money to Democrats.
In the New Jersey gubernatorial debate, Democrat Phil Murphy responded to allegations lobbed against him by Republican Kim Guadagno that Murphy had worked with Weinstein to raise money for Democrats, and that he has contributed to his gubernatorial campaign.
“I didn’t ask for and I didn’t get one dime from this guy. What he’s done is completely outrageous and heinous. I call on anyone who has gotten contributions from him to send them, as some have already done, to organizations that are focused on women’s rights in our country, responded Murphy quite adamantly. Yet, he did admit that there was going to be some event involving Weinstein, in which he was dropped when his campaign caught wind that something was happening—whatever that means. Eventually, the whole event was cancelled when more revelations were made public.
Murphy then pivoted to something that could only resonate with the brain dead liberal voters of New Jersey, which was to somehow equate the NRA’s contributions to the Republican Governor’s Association to Harvey Weinstein.
“The Republican Governor’s Association, which is running a lot of ads against me, have gotten at least $60,000 from her [Guadagno] friends at the NRA this year. And I find that unconscionable particularly since what happened over the past nine days. So, let’s make sure we’re focused on the facts; I don’t have one dime from this guy. And anybody who does should give it back, but let’s all make sure we understand all sides of this.”
Yeah, owning a firearm is a constitutionally protected right; sexually harassing and assaulting women is not. Harvey Weinstein has damning evidence of wrongdoing against him. The NRA does not. The NRA did not cause Stephen Paddock to murder 58 people in Las Vegas, even Sen. Dianne Feinstein admitted that no gun law could have prevented this attack since Paddock passed background checks, had no history of mental illness, or a criminal record. The NRA is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. They can give money to whomever they want. This is a bizarre apples and oranges argument that support for the Second Amendment is somehow on the level of depravity as sexually harassing women over a period of decades. Then again, this is deep blue New Jersey. Logic need not apply.
Also, Murphy had to have worked with Weinstiein, or at least saw his receipts. He was the Democratic National Committee's finance chair from 2006-2009 (via Star Ledger):
...Murphy confirmed that he was scheduled to appear at a political event with Weinstein later this month and that his campaigned "canceled it" when they heard he was going to be involved.Plus, Guadagno noted that Murphy was finance chair of the Democratic National Finance Committee from 2006 to 2009 -- a period when the group received $28,500 from Weinstein.And Guadagno called Murphy a "coward" for not condemning Weinstein until her campaign brought up the issue earlier in the day."Shame on him for not coming forward earlier," Guadagno said.
Sorry, This Harvey Wasn’t Just a Benign Pooka
At the end of the whimsical 1950 movie ‘Harvey,’ the character Elwood P. Dowd, A.K.A. actor James Stewart, is seen walking off into the distance with his six-foot-tall rabbit friend Harvey, bringing to an end one of Stewart’s best performances in his nearly 100 films, television appearances, and movie shorts.
Stewart, one of the best actors Hollywood has ever produced, enjoyed a career spanning from 1932 until 1991. He was nominated for an Academy Award five times as Best Actor, and winning the Oscar for his performance in the Philadelphia Story in 1941.
Less known is the fact that Stewart also served his country as a military officer, being the first well-known Hollywood personality to enlist following America’s entry into World War II. As a pilot with the Army Air Corps he flew bombing missions over Nazi occupied Europe and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre during the war.
Later as a Brigadier General Stewart also flew on a B-52 bombing mission during the Vietnam War. He ultimately retired with the rank of Major General in the Air Force Reserves following his 27 years of military service to this country.
Obviously Jimmy Stewart’s career was far more than his one performance in Harvey, the film about a man and his friendship with an imaginary - or not - six-foot-tall ‘Pooka’ rabbit.
Unlike many in the entertainment industry during Stewart’s time and even now, Stewart’s career was never marred by scandal. He remained married to his wife Gloria for 45 years, until her death in 1994. His adopted son Ronald was killed in action as a Marine in Vietnam in 1969. Jimmy Stewart remains an example of everything that was once good about Hollywood.
In recent days another noted Harvey from Hollywood has taken center stage. This time not a mythical character in any whimsical movie, but from the sounds of it the main player in a real life horror film.
While the entertainment industry grapples with how this apparently ‘very well known secret’ could have gone on for what appears to have been decades, what is more interesting is how this Harvey also was able to travel in high profile political circles. Most notably with Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Barack and Michelle Obama.
It seems that in ultra liberal Hollywood as long as you toe the party line politically you can achieve wealth, fame, and success. And also the power to control the careers and futures of countless aspiring and established actors.
The American film industry which gave us Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and many other American patriots from that era, has become an industry that now gives us child molesters, perverts, and sex offenders like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and now Harvey.
Stewart, one of the best actors Hollywood has ever produced, enjoyed a career spanning from 1932 until 1991. He was nominated for an Academy Award five times as Best Actor, and winning the Oscar for his performance in the Philadelphia Story in 1941.
Less known is the fact that Stewart also served his country as a military officer, being the first well-known Hollywood personality to enlist following America’s entry into World War II. As a pilot with the Army Air Corps he flew bombing missions over Nazi occupied Europe and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the French Croix de Guerre during the war.
Later as a Brigadier General Stewart also flew on a B-52 bombing mission during the Vietnam War. He ultimately retired with the rank of Major General in the Air Force Reserves following his 27 years of military service to this country.
Obviously Jimmy Stewart’s career was far more than his one performance in Harvey, the film about a man and his friendship with an imaginary - or not - six-foot-tall ‘Pooka’ rabbit.
Unlike many in the entertainment industry during Stewart’s time and even now, Stewart’s career was never marred by scandal. He remained married to his wife Gloria for 45 years, until her death in 1994. His adopted son Ronald was killed in action as a Marine in Vietnam in 1969. Jimmy Stewart remains an example of everything that was once good about Hollywood.
In recent days another noted Harvey from Hollywood has taken center stage. This time not a mythical character in any whimsical movie, but from the sounds of it the main player in a real life horror film.
While the entertainment industry grapples with how this apparently ‘very well known secret’ could have gone on for what appears to have been decades, what is more interesting is how this Harvey also was able to travel in high profile political circles. Most notably with Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Barack and Michelle Obama.
It seems that in ultra liberal Hollywood as long as you toe the party line politically you can achieve wealth, fame, and success. And also the power to control the careers and futures of countless aspiring and established actors.
The American film industry which gave us Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and many other American patriots from that era, has become an industry that now gives us child molesters, perverts, and sex offenders like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, and now Harvey.
A Truly Great Phony
Many years ago, I was a member of a committee that was recommending to whom grant money should be awarded. Since I knew one of the applicants, I asked if this meant that I should recuse myself from voting on his application.
"No," the chairman said. "I know him too -- and he is one of the truly great phonies of our time."
The man was indeed a very talented phony. He could convince almost anybody of almost anything -- provided that they were not already knowledgeable about the subject.
He had once spoken to me very authoritatively about Marxian economics, apparently unaware that I was one of the few people who had read all three volumes of Marx's "Capital," and had published articles on Marxian economics in scholarly journals.
What our glib talker was saying might have seemed impressive to someone who had never read "Capital," as most people have not. But it was complete nonsense to me.
Incidentally, he did not get the grant he applied for.
This episode came back to me recently, as I read an incisive column by Charles Krauthammer, citing some of the many gaffes in public statements by the President of the United States.
One presidential gaffe in particular gives the flavor, and suggests the reason, for many others. It involved the Falkland Islands.
Argentina has recently been demanding that Britain return the Falkland Islands, which have been occupied by Britons for nearly two centuries. In 1982, Argentina seized these islands by force, only to have British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher take the islands back by force.
With Argentina today beset by domestic problems, demanding the return of the Falklands is once again a way for Argentina's government to distract the Argentine public's attention from the country's economic and other woes.
Because the Argentines call these islands "the Malvinas," rather than "the Falklands," Barack Obama decided to use the Argentine term. But he referred to them as "the Maldives."
It so happens that the Maldives are thousands of miles away from the Malvinas. The former are in the Indian Ocean, while the latter are in the South Atlantic.
Nor is this the only gross misstatement that President Obama has gotten away with, thanks to the mainstream media, which sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil when it comes to Obama.
The presidential gaffe that struck me when I heard it was Barack Obama's reference to a military corps as a military "corpse." He is obviously a man who is used to sounding off about things he has paid little or no attention to in the past. His mispronunciation of a common military term was especially revealing to someone who was once in the Marine Corps, not Marine "corpse."
Like other truly talented phonies, Barack Obama concentrates his skills on the effect of his words on other people -- most of whom do not have the time to become knowledgeable about the things he is talking about. Whether what he says bears any relationship to the facts is politically irrelevant.
A talented con man, or a slick politician, does not waste his time trying to convince knowledgeable skeptics. His job is to keep the true believers believing. He is not going to convince the others anyway.
Back during Barack Obama's first year in office, he kept repeating, with great apparent earnestness, that there were "shovel-ready" projects that would quickly provide many much-needed jobs, if only his spending plans were approved by Congress.
He seemed very convincing -- if you didn't know how long it can take for any construction project to get started, after going through a bureaucratic maze of environmental impact studies, zoning commission rulings and other procedures that can delay even the smallest and simplest project for years.
Only about a year or so after his big spending programs were approved by Congress, Barack Obama himself laughed at how slowly everything was going on his supposedly "shovel-ready" projects.
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